Re: Dell BIOS Changes

On 2020-01-29, Curt wrote: > On 2020-01-28, J. D. Leach wrote: >> To Whom it May Concern, >> >> Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware >> (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not allow >> ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor)

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

On 2020-01-28, J. D. Leach wrote: > To Whom it May Concern, > > Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware > (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not allow > ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor) onto the PC. In That's

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

On 1/27/20 10:13 PM, J. D. Leach wrote: > To Whom it May Concern, > > Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware > (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not allow > ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor) onto the PC. In > the BIOS

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:29 AM Nate Bargmann wrote: > The foregoing is why I really want to see ARM evolve to be the basis of > decent workstation performance. Given the machinations being done to > commodity hardware something more open with Coreboot or uboot is needed. > And in case you

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

The foregoing is why I really want to see ARM evolve to be the basis of decent workstation performance. Given the machinations being done to commodity hardware something more open with Coreboot or uboot is needed. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 08:43:07AM -0700, ghe wrote: > On 1/27/20 10:13 PM, J. D. Leach wrote: > > > I suspect Microsoft is back to trying to squelch the use of software > > other than what it approves of. > > "Sells" you mean... > > I bought a Dell laptop a couple years ago, and it had a

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

On 1/27/20 10:13 PM, J. D. Leach wrote: > I suspect Microsoft is back to trying to squelch the use of software > other than what it approves of. "Sells" you mean... I bought a Dell laptop a couple years ago, and it had a 'BIOS' like you describe. But there was an option in the several pages of

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

On 2020-01-28 at 03:23, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 28.01.2020 10:13, J. D. Leach wrote: > >> To Whom it May Concern, >> >> Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware >> (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not >> allow ANY type of loading of

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

On 28.01.2020 10:13, J. D. Leach wrote: > To Whom it May Concern, > > Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware > (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not > allow ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor) onto > the PC. In the BIOS

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

On 28.01.2020 10:13, J. D. Leach wrote: > To Whom it May Concern, > > Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware > (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not > allow ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor) onto > the PC. In the BIOS

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

J. D. Leach wrote: > Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware > (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not allow > ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor) onto the PC. In > the BIOS configuration menu, no option is available to boot

Re: Dell BIOS

Mirko Parthey composed on 2017-01-17 00:36 (UTC+0100): The BIOS clock could still have the correct time despite a dead battery because the Linux system gets the time from an NTP server and writes it to the BIOS clock on shutdown. The clock then runs on ATX standby power and will only lose its

Re: Dell BIOS

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 11:52:48AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > change the boot sequence order from floppy-C:-CDROM to > CDROM-floppy-C: or CDROM-C:-floppy which prevents the hard drive > from grabbing the boot sequence each time. There may be a function key that brings up a BIOS boot menu.

Re: Dell BIOS

Joe writes: > The ones I saw were Japanese components in Japanese television > cameras, many of them broadcast. This was from the mid-90s onwards. Japanese companies can get suckered by something that looks like a good deal just like anyone else. > And silent leakage of copper-dissolving

Re: Dell BIOS

On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:54:05 -0600 John Hasler wrote: > Joe writes: > > The electrolyte used in these [Japanese] capacitors > > They were Chinese knockoffs of a Japanese design. However there was a > proprietary trick that the Chinese missed and so they made and sold a >

Re: Dell BIOS

Joe writes: > The electrolyte used in these [Japanese] capacitors They were Chinese knockoffs of a Japanese design. However there was a proprietary trick that the Chinese missed and so they made and sold a vast number of caps that turned out to be defective. Electrolytics usually have burst

Re: Dell BIOS

On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 14:53:33 -0600 "Martin McCormick" wrote: > Felix Miata writes: > > What models are they? If of approximately 2002 to 2007 vintage, > > they could be victims of the bad capacitor plague: > > > >

Re: Dell BIOS

Felix Miata writes: > What models are they? If of approximately 2002 to 2007 vintage, they could > be victims of the bad capacitor plague: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague Interesting article. These dells could possibly be in that group as one has

Re: Dell BIOS

Martin McCormick composed on 2017-01-16 11:52 (UTC-0600): I don't know how common this is but the BIOS' of two Dell Optiplexes plus the BIOS of another Dell Dimension don't stay set the way one would like them to. As a computer user who happens to What models are they? If of